The first billion smartphones in use worldwide took 16 years toreach, but we forecast the next billion tobe achieved in less than three years, by 2015.
However, if the market share grows at a faster rate toreach 60% by the end of Trefis forecast period, there could be an upside of close to 5% to our estimate for Oracle stock.
But a report by Swedish analysts Berg Insight predicts that in Western Europe, mobile TV will not be a major contributor to booming mobile content revenues until at least 2012, when transmissions are forecasttoreach broadcast quality.